A Chico-based nonprofit is leading two large-scale restoration projects along the Sacramento River corridor aimed at improving salmon populations, restoring wildlife habitat, and expanding public access to nature in Northern California. … [I]n collaboration with agencies like the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the California Wildlife Conservation Board, River Partners is advancing two major restoration projects, Rancho Breisgau and Battle Creek Ranch, along Battle Creek between Redding and Red Bluff. The Rancho Breisgau and Battle Creek Ranch projects are designed to reconnect critical habitat corridors stretching from the Sacramento River toward Lassen Volcanic National Park.

Other anadromous fish news:

• Western Outdoor News (San Clemente, Calif.): Ocean salmon season begins April 11 below Pigeon Point while the ocean and river season setting process continues throughout the next month
• Jefferson Public Radio (Ashland, Ore.): Chinook salmon are hatching in Upper Klamath for first time in a century
• Delta Science Program: Report: Water year 2024 and 2025 winter-run chinook salmon annual loss independent peer review
• UC Davis: Blog: Where do sturgeon go?
• Daily Kos: Blog: Fish groups say juvenile salmon will die unless feds release pulse flows into Sacramento River!